Name: E-resource Licensing Explained: an A-Z Licensing Guidebook for Libraries
Start: 2025-05-20T14:30:00-0400
End: 2025-05-20T15:15:00-0400

Tuesday May 20, 2025 2:30pm - 3:15pm EDT

Zoom channel 2

License agreements influence how libraries, students, researchers, and other users interact with electronic resources. A forthcoming open e-book by five law and licensing experts from institutions across the US – (“E-resource Licensing Explained,” to be published by ARL) – will empower academic librarians and library staff with licensing responsibilities to advocate for license terms that enable computational research. The guidebook includes easily-digestible legal explanations and pragmatic strategies for preserving rights that users already have under US copyright law, particularly in the face of restrictive license terms that would otherwise constrain or eliminate those rights. During this session, the guidebook’s co-authors and reviewers will share their own insights, challenges, and successes in negotiating for license agreements.

Speakers

Sunshine Carter

Director, Collection Strategy & eResource Management, University of Minnesota Libraries, Twin Cities

Jen Montavon-Green

Head of Electronic Resources, University of Kentucky

Co-chair of the Continuing Education committee. You'll see me crocheting around the conference (most likely working on Christmas gifts). Ask me about crafting, my two greyhounds, coming in third-place on Jeopardy!, and all things electronic resources!